“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided Senators who would use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. They won’t let the majority of Senators vote. And certainly, they don’t want the majority of people to vote because they know they don’t represent the majority of people.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., 19631
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John,
The immediate family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has said definitively: “no celebration without legislation.” We can’t celebrate the tremendous impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without the Senate passing crucial voting rights legislation to protect access to the polls, particularly for nonwhite voters.
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act would reverse the recent attacks on voting rights, standardize election laws, and restore key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But the racist filibuster is standing in our way.
In 1963, Dr. King warned against the impact of the filibuster on voting rights. Six decades later, we’re again seeing those implications play out firsthand once again.
The Senate will be in session this week to consider voting rights legislation, and whether or not to scrap the filibuster. In this moment, we need senators to hear our voices loud and clear: We must pass sweeping voting rights legislation and abolish the filibuster. Will you take a moment and send a message to your senators?
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MLK Day has always been a day on, not off. That is why we need you to contact your senators today.
In solidarity,
Working Families Party
Source:
1. What Martin Luther King Jr. said about the filibuster: ‘A minority of misguided senators’, Washington Post, January 4, 2022.
